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Excellent action shot.

What a happy couple!

wonder if they were on their way to Jekyll Island

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1910s Fashion, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Laura Spelman Rockefeller's head is huge in this photo. It does look like a head/hat was edited onto that body, especially when viewed close up. I downloaded the image, saw a blurry section above her head, and a white section around the right side of her face, and saw that his face and coat had been hand-outlined also. Possibly she had a blurred face, and the newspaper wanted a clear shot of her to publish? I did find another image online of this same train trip. She has on the same or a very similar dress coat. TITLE:John Davison Rockefeller, 1839-1937 CALL NUMBER:BIOG FILE - Rockefeller, John Davison, 1839-1937 [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-55926 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:1/2 length, standing, facing left, and wife; railroad? conductor behind them. MEDIUM:1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED:c1911 July 13. NOTES: J157560 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources checked: www. R-, Laura C. Spelman, d. 1915. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b03804 CONTROL #:2004679693 popartmachine.com/item/pop_art/LOC+1082712/JOHN-DAVISON-R....

Abigail (Abby) Aldrich Rockefeller The August 16, 1918 Evening World notes Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Driving First Spike Into the Keel of the U. S. Trawler Fish Hawk. Though that photo/article was probably at the boat's launching, not keel laying. The June 15 issue of Shipping noted that Fish Hawk was nearly all planked out and that launching would likely be in a few weeks. The July issue of The Rudder notes that Fish Hawk is the second of six planned trawlers for the East Coast Fisheries Company built in Maine by the Portland Shipbuilding Company and that Fish Hawk is a sistership to the first, the Kingfisher. The Rudder article includes some good plan and profile drawings of the boats. In the September, 1919 issue of The American Marine Engineerwe learn that while Kingfisher was sunk by a U-Boat during the war, Fish Hawk and her sisterships were still bringing fish into New York and the 6th in the series was about to begin construction.

Some photos of the Fish Hawk from 1919: mainehistory.pastperfect-online.com/32314cgi/mweb.exe?req... Fish Hawk as a derelict vessel in Noank, CT: connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/search/%22fis...

Looks like she is enjoying herself.

It looks like this ship was actually the Albatross. This photo appears in a Rockefeller Foundation publication with the caption: "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller holds the hammer that she used to drive a bolt during construction of the “Albatross” in Portland, Maine, in mid August 1918." Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, New York City www.rockarch.org/publications/newsletter/nl2000.pdf at p. 11.

Albatross built at same shipyard as Fish Hawk: Portland SB, South Portland ME, O.N. 217411 Albatross East Coast Fisheries Co Trawler GT 384 Delivery1918 Wrecked Diamond Shoals 1940 www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/719thcentur... Wreck: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?236463 about the loss cause lost: ran aground (wrecked) date lost: 21/02/1940

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrytown,_New_York

"ROCKEFELLER'S MONOLITH "Tarrytown Hears a Stone Weighing 250 Tons is Coming" Story in "The New York Times," March 15, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00D16FD3D5E13... ROCKEFELLER'S ROCK HALTS New York Times, June 10, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0B11FB3A5B13...

Wikipedia story on Kykuit, the John D. Rockefeller estate near Tarrytown: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykuit

Thanks Wystan for the links to the articles, and for determining the date, which will add some certainty to the image. We'll add that to the record the next time we update it. I'm still not sure what we are looking at in this image: a freight car built to hold and transport the stone?

No, that appears to be a gigantic stoneboat, perched on rollers, with a massive framework surrounding the stone, probably to prevent accidental breakage or chipping while in transit. The stories suggest that it was Rockefeller's plan to move the stone in one piece, and to have it carved into an ornamental fountain on the site. The words "George Brown & Co., N. Y.," have been painted on the sides of the wooden cribbing that surrounds and protects the stone.